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Suffer the Little Children – 2 Suffer the little children – 2 Introduction A few months ago I sent out my first paper on the subject of UK institutional paedophilia. This was a shocking expose of just how involved all levels of the establishment are in paedophile rings, right to the top of the monarchy and Parliament. Although it covered 75 detailed pages, with full references, it was really only an introduction to the subject. It beggars belief to grasp the full extent of the criminality of the establishment. There is no doubt that if the extent of this criminality was known to the public, it would bring the country to its knees; but that is what is necessary to rid institutions of a free reign of abusing children. However, shortly after I sent out that paper to my circle, the bubble of state secrecy began to burst wide open. This followed the courageous involvement of a group of seven MPs who began to demand answers. This, in turn was subsequent to Labour MP Tom Watson’s questions to David Cameron regarding Westminster paedophile rings (which led to Operations Fairbank / Fernbridge) and then a book by Simon Danczuk MP 1 exposing the child abuse by Sir Cyril Smith in Rochdale which had been long covered up by the police, the council and many people in authority. All of these, of course, resulted from the publicity regarding the full extent of the child abuse of Jimmy Savile. What is necessary is to get the full story from survivors of child abuse, families of the victims of child abuse, social workers that tried to stop child abuse whose reports were squashed, whistle-blowers and investigative journalists who could not be bribed and gagged. All these have been telling alternative media the same story for decades, a story which (until very recently) mainstream media would not publish and which the establishment dismissed as fantasy. Even today when the Home Secretary has been forced to accept that there is a problem, media outlets like the BBC are still not fully reporting the whole story and protect the guilty senior establishment figures. The only way to report this continually breaking story (which has yet to fully explode) is to explain the progressive nature of the various components as they appear in the media. This is the opposite of what I did in the previous paper, which gathered decades of old information regarding certain institutions and itemising it, one by one. This means that the whole story regarding individuals is probably going to explained piecemeal, but it is going to take a few years before historians can gather all the relevant information and collate it properly. We are in the thick of the breaking story right now. In addition, the amount of data is absolutely enormous, going back at least fifty years. However, I will try to group the information together as best as I can. 1 Simon Danczuk MP & Matthew Baker; ‘Smile for the camera: the double life of Cyril Smith’, April 2014. 2 The framework of evidence Why exposés are necessary? Some may criticise exposés in the alternative media as being unfair, unjust and libellous. Since most of the people accused have not been through the process of a court of law then people like me should just shut up. This is to completely miss the point and, in fact, to side with criminals of the worst kind. The whole point is that the justice system has been rigged by corruption and has failed to work for decades. Where is the justice for the hundreds of thousands of children who have been abused, sexually abused, raped, tortured and even murdered? Do not these demand justice? To fail to speak up for the defenceless is a much greater sin than demanding a paedophile face justice. Jimmy Savile alone proves this, but there have been very many others. Paedophiles were either protected (like Savile) by high powers or were given lenient sentences and then allowed to abuse again. Savile’s victims are numbered in the hundreds and yet his child abuse was well known since the 1960s – nobody did anything. This is what is happening right now; VIP paedophiles are literally getting away with murder. Since the justice system is not working, then alternative media and independent writers need to expose perpetrators of child abuse when there is sufficient evidence. The innocent have nothing to fear and can sue these writers if they choose. People think that circumstantial evidence is insufficient to prove guilt; this is wrong. Circumstantial evidence is sufficient if there is enough of it. However, if we add to circumstantial evidence eyewitness testimony it is even stronger. If we then add the testimony of multiple witnesses that give the same story then the evidence is unassailable. This is the case with Jimmy Savile; everyone accepts his guilt, due to overwhelming corroborative evidence, but he has not gone through a court process. This is the case with the people named in this paper. There are some famous names that are named as paedophiles on certain websites, which I have not named because I feel that the evidence is lacking. We need more than a name on a gay-brothel guest list. Survi vor’s Victim’s Social Social Journalistic testimonies of accusations worker’s worker’s reports historic abuse to the police enquiry testimony reports Government Police Hard evidence Whistleblower’s investigations investigations (videos, audio evidence tapes, documents) Guilt sufficiently established to require further investigation or prosecution 3 Results of the actions of MPs The Barbara Castle dossier - 1984 This dossier names two familiar MPs as paedophiles, Sir Rhodes Boyson and Sir Keith Joseph. 2 The dossier was drawn up by Labour MP Barbara Castle. It also named senior policemen, head teachers and clergy. Special Branch officers seized Baroness Castle’s files in a 1984 raid after Castle handed them to Don Hale, the editor of the Bury Messenger. This followed paedophile MP Cyril Smith demanding that the editor drop the story. The dossier names Boyson as involved with PIE, which campaigned to legalise sex with children as young as four. Boyson raised funds and drove promotions for PIE, while at the same time he publicly castigated homosexual activities. He also arranged for PIE members to meet influential education figures and distributed the PIE magazine. The dossier features Keith Joseph several times. Tom Watson – October 2012 Labour MP Watson is the reason that the Westminster paedophile scandal is only now being given impetus. In October 2012 Watson stunned Parliament and David Cameron when he claimed in the Commons that a high-profile paedophile network had operated in Westminster and even reached with links to 10 Downing Street. He said that there is, ‘ clear intelligence suggesting a powerful paedophile network linked to Parliament and No. 10 ’. 3 This resulted in Operation Fairbank, a scoping exercise, which then led to Operation Fernbridge. Police initially homed in on the Elm Guest House scandals in Barnes, south west London, where VIPs abused boys in the 1970 and 80s. After this exposure, certain newspapers and particularly Exaro have brought out story after story exposing the VIP paedophile rings reaching to the highest levels of society. It also gave courage and impetus to survivor victims to come forward and give new evidence. The resurrection of the missing Geoffrey Dickens dossier case I mentioned in my last paper that this (now dead) Tory MP compiled a dossier on VIP paedophiles in the 1980s, including cabinet ministers and high powered people, and gave it to Leon Brittan, then Home Secretary, in 1984. It subsequently vanished. Ever since, Brittan has stated that he has no recollection of receiving the dossier. Dicken’s son, Barry, said that his father affirmed that the dossier would ‘ blow the lid off ’ a secret VIP paedophile network. Dickens also used parliamentary privilege and named Sir Peter Hayman in the Commons as being a child abuser. He was strenuously warned, before entering the chamber, against doing this by Michael Havers, then attorney general. 2 Daily Mirror; ‘Two Tory ministers were named in a damning 1980s paedophile dossier’, Vincent Moss, Matthew Drake, 19 July 2014. 3 The Week; ‘Westminster Paedophile Claims: was there a cover-up?’, 7 July 2014. 4 Dickens received quite a lot of recriminations for doing this, even though Hayman was effectively a potential serious criminal. Hayman was never charged. Dickens flat was subsequently burgled and searched twice. Though the alternative media has written about this for decades, the mainstream media has ignored it – until recently. It has now become a big story. Simon Danczuk MP raised the matter while giving evidence to the House of Commons home affairs committee in June 2014. He explained that Dickens had information about the Paedophile Information Exchange and paedophiles operating a network in Westminster and that he named eight public figures of being paedophiles. He suggested that Leon Brittan be interviewed. After this Brittan issued a statement on 2 July at 10.30am through his solicitors. Suddenly Brittan said that he knew all about it. He remembered meeting Dickens and getting the dossier and said that it was passed to civil servants and that he told Dickens that he would act on it as necessary. He asked officials to report back to him to see what action was required but no one did. It appears that the dossier has since disappeared. 4 Simon Danczuk said, ‘ The public will not be satisfied with Sir Leon’s glib response ’. David Cameron asked Mark Sedwill, Home Office permanent secretary, to investigate. Sedwill then revealed that an investigation had already taken place last year and found that 114 files relating to historic allegations of child sex abuse, from between 1979 and 1999, had disappeared.
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